Oracle's SOA Suite spot: Unlike, say, parachute pants and pet rocks, SOA (service-oriented architecture) is more than a passing fad, and InfoWorld is committed to helping guide you down your SOA path. To that end, Senior Contributing James R. Borck, who has already proven himself a very capable ESB (enterprise service bus) driver, is taking an in-depth look at Oracle SOA Suite 10.1. While his full review (an Inf Oracle’s SOA Suite spot: Unlike, say, parachute pants and pet rocks, SOA (service-oriented architecture) is more than a passing fad, and InfoWorld is committed to helping guide you down your SOA path. To that end, Senior Contributing James R. Borck, who has already proven himself a very capable ESB (enterprise service bus) driver, is taking an in-depth look at Oracle SOA Suite 10.1. While his full review (an InfoWorld exclusive) is yet to come, he has shared some preliminary and promising observations. See BizTalk run If a picture’s worth a thousand words, then we have quite a few thousand more words to say about Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006, in the form of a detailed, narrated screencast. Whether or not you’ve had a chance to check out Contributing Editor Martin Heller’s review of the impressive EAI solution, the video is worth watching so as to get a feel of just how rich an offering BizTalk is.I can’t believe it’s not open source! Ambivalence ranks right up there with irony as one of those words that rarely gets used properly. It means “the condition of holding opposite feelings (such as love and hate) for the same person or object.” Why the vocabulary lesson? So I can allude to Opera’s apparent feelings of ambivalence toward open source. The way Senior Editor Neil McCallister tells it, the company supports open source; it just sees no way of adopting the open source model for its browser while being able to remain competitive. Technology Industry